The authors used the Ontario Ministry of Health’s administrative data to examine the rates of emergency room visits for cannabis poisoning among older adults during the pre-legalization period ...

To learn more about cannabis use in older adults, researchers turned to the Veterans Affairs Cannabis and Aging Study, which ...

Cannabis use among older veterans has reached levels comparable to modern-day tobacco use, with more than 1 in 10 reporting ...

Routine health screening for cannabis use in Veterans Health Administration clinical settings is necessary to identify older adults with cannabis use.

Individuals aged 65 years and over, however, experienced the greatest relative increase in CUD. Whereas 0.9% of those with HIV had the condition in 2000, the same was true for 4% in 2022. For those ...

A large national study of U.S. veterans aged 65–84 found that 10.3% reported cannabis use in the past 30 days, with over ...

These findings have important implications considering increasing cannabis use among older adults." — Dr. Daniel T. Myran, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute What Doctors Say: This research ...

The number of people aged 65 and over checking into ERs in Ontario for what amounted to cannabis poisoning grew sharply ... of emergency room visits among older adults, which stood at 5.8 per ...

The data revealed a striking rise in cannabis-related emergency visits among older adults. Between 2008 and 2021, the rate of ER visits due to marijuana increased fivefold among those aged 45-64 ...

Medical visits related to cannabis increased more than fivefold among adults 45 and older between 2008 and 2021, the new study found. Among adults 65 and over, visits increased almost 27-fold.